TastyTalkWithAmy: Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball (Easy)

Monday, September 26, 2011

Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball (Easy)

All I can say is this is delicious! Serve it with chocolate graham crackers, a must, accept no substitutes, like plain graham crackers, tried it, doesn't taste as yummy or should I say doesn't compliment it as well. One day I wanted to whip one up for a friend and I did not have mini chocolate chips in the house but I had the regular sized chips and those would have been way too large for this cheese ball. I decided to throw them in the food processor and pulverize them, I actually like making this dessert that way now because you get a finer chocolate chip and you get all those shavings as well and when you add it to the cream cheese mixture it blends in throughout quite nicely. I am not saying you can't use mini chocolate chips but if you don't have any mini's in the house and only the regular sized kind and have a food processor on hand then pulverize the full sized ones.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Chocolate-Chip-Cheese-Ball

Ingredients

1 package (8 ounces) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese (softened or cubed), softened

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

3/4 cup confectioners' sugar

2 tablespoons brown sugar

3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

3/4 cup finely chopped pecans

Graham crackers

Directions

In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until fluffy. Gradually add sugars; beat just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Place cream cheese mixture on a large piece of plastic wrap; shape into a ball. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Just before serving, roll cheese ball in pecans. Serve with graham crackers. Yield: 1 cheese ball (about 2 cups).